Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defea

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen

Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.